We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.